It really concerns me that we and people of other political beliefs increasingly live in realities that don’t coincide.
I talked this morning with a colleague who is a professor of chemistry and a US citizen and who can’t travel to his father’s funeral because of the tense political situation.
Can you guess in which country the funeral takes place? A hint: it’s a country where it’s dangerous for an American to go.
Another hint: I’m going there in May.
Yes, it’s Montreal, Canada.
The colleague delivered this update like it’s a completely normal thing. Like it requires no explanation. And yes, exactly a year ago I had an identical conversation with another colleague. It also involved the dangers of traveling to Canada. There’s probably something going on in the other side’s news cycle of which we are utterly unaware.
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One of my family members was coming to visit us this year but she is refusing to come because it’s too dangerous to travel to the US. I did not even try to convince her otherwise, there is no point.
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